The merciless Grab

The squandering of the value of human life

Thrashing the blue sky with red

Screaming in daylight is the young child

Crying out to the dove filled skies

The innocent ones winter cloud

Raining the souls of human kind

The limitless speeches floating thin air

The great ones have descended in smoke

The twist of a girl's curls lay in the rubble

A handkerchief wrapped around a finger

For tears would never account loss

Merchants of our time have sold it all

The danger to loss of love

Replaced by a cult of nothingness

The leaders of snake like act

Poisoning the vacated room 

A position of needle point 

Reading figures of illness

The blind of heart

Slaughtering a beautiful skyline 

Reviews

[wordman]

that`s all man has ever done,kill and destroy innocent life
loved the poem and the image

[Nisreen]

Thank You :)

[Emily]

Lovely poem!
Keep it up!

[Nisreen]

Thanks Emily

[Richard Patrick]

Peace is what this world needs in a big way. I agree with what you are saying. Peace is what the world needs now, we should destroy the concept of war. We all bleed the same blood. We all need food. rooves over our heads. Who needs war? Seriously who needs war? Not me. NOt you either, we want the dove to fly with the olive branch to offer peace to the world's leaders. We need it now. Forever we should have but one dream. Peace.

[Nisreen]

War happens when there is an attack that calls for a form of defence ..... anything outside of those limits is a form of bullying that leads to a fight ..... thank you for your review

[Ruth]

Such things break my heart and I shall never accept war...as always, poignant and right to the bone...

[Nisreen]

Thank you Poppy :)

[barleygirl]

Being against war & violence myself, I can relate to your message. I think the flow is a bit uneven, as far as expressing somewhat disjointed ideas that go together, but don't exactly feel like a cohesive flow. This isn't a bad thing becuz it reflects the nature of war & violence, being raggedy & messy & uncertain. You've used vivid analogies & descriptions thru-out to show the horrors in a slightly muted way (not intensely graphic, that is).

[Nisreen]

Thank you .......................

[PoeticSorcery]

the workings of men will destroy us all, they make decisions without our approval, and it always leads to war, because war, war never changes.

[Nisreen]

If anything should be illegal and punishable by law. It should be war. Thanks for your review

[PoeticSorcery]

i definitely think war shouldn't exist. sadly I don't think terrorists would care. can't we just kill them without making war?

[Nisreen]

They would kill their own and themselves .... the fear they give out is one they live within ......

[PoeticSorcery]

yeah. they don't call them radicalists for nothing. belief is a dangerous thing, when done improperly

[Nisreen]

Though belief is meant to tame the soul to accepting others .... Once it makes the soul aggressive it's no longer belief

[Nisreen]

By the way people often attribute belief to religion .... on the contrary it can take a large array of thinking patterns .... It can be as simple as saying listen the sky is blue and if you say otherwise or think otherwise .... you are the enemy .... the human mind was built to accommodate the truth or one's version of reality within subtlety .... allowing for one's own perspective to change .... the human eye doesn't see anything in the same exact way twice .... we are built to tolerate .... but some people have their brains on backwards .....

[PoeticSorcery]

I'm both confused and in agreement. mostly cause I'm tired, so I know what you're saying, but I'm still not certain of the words you're using lol. I do know one thing, people will always use anything they can to get their way, especially belief.

[Nisreen]

Agreed ......

[PoeticSorcery]

glad I made some sense in my dizzied sleepy mind lol

[Nisreen]

Lol
A good volume of my best work was written while I am so sleepy

[PoeticSorcery]

mine is written while I'm in the shower lol. sometimes when I'm really tired too though.

[Nisreen]

More than often for me it's 3am writing .... Insomnia paid off

[PoeticSorcery]

I used to stay up and write that late, but I'm too old to be staying up all night anymore lol

[Nisreen]

lol
i am never gonna be old to do this

[PoeticSorcery]

good luck with that then, I certainly wish I was your age again lol

[Nisreen]

how old do you think i am

[PoeticSorcery]

I didn't really have a number in mind. and I wasn't really thinking when I said that. I don't even want to throw a number out there now, cause if I go too high or too low, you might be offended, know what I mean?

[Nisreen]

i am seldom offended ......

[PoeticSorcery]

are you somewhere between the age of 18 and 30?

[Nisreen]

32 .................

[PoeticSorcery]

crap, you're slightly older than I am lol. i'll be 32 in November. i'll have to be careful with my guestimates from now on lol

[The Fallen King]

I like this good writing.

[Nisreen]

Thank you for stopping by

[GalaxyGhost]

Wow! The first line is my favorite part because we humans tend to take human life for granted. Though we can feel the frailty and importance of life, it tends to be forgotten. Some see another person merely as a number, a background noise, but as the poem points out, life needs more appreciation of itself. I hope this makes sense!

[Nisreen]

It does .... thank you so much for your words

[Inject Positivity]

Very deeply meant write...

It pictures the brutality of inhumanity in this present world where blood and blood is everywhere... Your choice of words were magnificent and they really hit home... Wow!!! Superb message and shows the reader the destruction around him... Very thought provoking write...

Sincerely
Dhiman

[Nisreen]

Thank you Dhiman

[Elmarie]

Hi A deep and interesting read. War I find rather a bore as it does not give life but sheds devastation, and is really a guise for a mass murder. I find war an atrocious way of solving a problem. I find war is a greedy act from strong forces that want to take and not negotiate. I find your poem captured many aspects of this. The detail of the little curly lock of hair shows the brutal destruction of innocence.

Well done :)

Elmarie

[Nisreen]

Thank you for taking the time to write me a review :)

[Elmarie]

You are most welcome :)